Allotinus lahomius ( Kheil, 1884 ), 2025

Šumpich, Jan & Weidenhoffer, Zdeněk, 2025, A review of the types of Lycaenidae species (Lepidoptera) described by Napoleon Manuel Kheil deposited in the collection of the National Museum of the Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 65 (1), pp. 177-195 : 178-179

Allotinus lahomius ( Kheil, 1884)

comb. nov. & stat. restit.

( Fig. 1)

Miletus lahomius Kheil, 1884: 27–28 , figs 28–29 (original description). Logania regina lahomius : FRUHSTORÞER (1914a): 23 (new combination). Logania lahomius : FRUHSTORÞER (1916a): 806 (new combination).

Logania marmorata lahomius : CORBET (1940a):112; ELlOT (1986):4, 66 (redescription, distribution, key to the subspecies of L. marmorata ); BRlDGES (1988): VII.249, IX.65 (catalogue).

Type material examined. SYNTYPES (5 JJ 5 ♀♀, NMPC): 1 J, ‘Typo [hw] // Nias [p] // Orig. [p, pink label] // Typus [p, red label] // Coll. N. Kheil [p] // [small yellow label without text] // Photo / Gen. prep. / J. Šumpich / 22/157 [p] // ex coll. N. M. Kheil / Coll. National / Museum Prague [p] // Syntype J / Miletus lahomius / Kheil, 1884 / labelled by J. Šumpich / & Z. Weidenhoffer, 2025 [p, red label]’ ( Fig. 1A).

1 J, ‘Typo [hw] // Nias [p] // Orig. [p, pink label] // Typus [p, red label] // Coll. N. Kheil [p] // ex coll. N. M. Kheil / Coll. National / Museum Prague [p] // Syntype J / Miletus lahomius / Kheil, 1884 / labelled by J. Šumpich / & Z. Weidenhoffer, 2025 [p, red label]’ (without abdomen).

3 JJ, ‘Nias [p] // Coll. N. Kheil [p] // ex coll. N. M. Kheil / Coll. National / Museum Prague [p] // Syntype J / Miletus lahomius / Kheil, 1884 / labelled by J. Šumpich / & Z. Weidenhoffer, 2025 [p, red label]’ (one male without abdomen).

5 ♀♀, ‘Nias [p] // Coll.N. Kheil [p] // ex coll. N.M.Kheil / Coll.National / Museum Prague [p] // Syntype ♀ / Miletus lahomius / Kheil, 1884 / labelled by J. Šumpich / & Z.Weidenhoffer,2025 [p, red label]’. One female with the label ‘Photo / Gen. prep. / J. Šumpich / 22/158 [p]’ ( Fig. 1B).

Current status. Allotinus lahomius ( Kheil, 1884) comb. nov., valid species (see Remark).

Distribution. Indonesia: Nias (KHElL 1884),? Sumatra (ELlOT 1986).

Remarks. Classification in the genus Allotinus C. & R. Felder, [1865] follows SEKl et al. (1991).

The description of Logania marmorata Moore, 1884 was published on 30 June 1884 (cf. title pages of Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. LIII). Kheil’s work was published in 1884 without further specification of the publication date, only the author’s preface is dated at the end of February 1884. However, in the same year SCHlLDE (1884) wrote a review of KHElL’ S (1884) paper, which is dated June 1884. It is obvious that J. Schilde had to read Kheil’s work before F. Moore’s paper was published. For this reason, Miletus lahomius Kheil, 1884 has precedence over Logania marmorata Moore, 1884 , which becomes a junior subjective synonym of the former, though valid in the subspecies rank. Due to this synonymy the change of the nominotypical subspecies is required ( ICZN 1999: 47.2), affecting all its existing subspecies according to ELlOT (1986) (see the list bellow):

Allotinus lahomius lahomius ( Kheil, 1884)

Allotinus lahomius damis (Fruhstorfer, 1914) , stat. nov.

Allotinus lahomius diehli ( Eliot, 1986) , stat. nov.

Allotinus lahomius faustina (Fruhstorfer, 1914) , stat. nov. Allotinus lahomius hilaeira (Fruhstorfer, 1914) , stat. nov. Allotinus lahomius javanica (Fruhstorfer, 1914) , stat. nov. Allotinus lahomius marmorata ( Moore, 1884) , stat. nov.

Allotinus lahomius munichya (Fruhstorfer, 1914) , stat. nov. Allotinus lahomius palawana (Fruhstorfer, 1914) , stat. nov. Allotinus lahomius samosata (Fruhstorfer, 1914) , stat. nov.